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Oh, now I feel even older...

#9 - crisp drums like Roy Haynes, but the time is not like Roys, more like Max. But Jamal connection? Vernell Fournier...but that's not Shearing? Found the Elmo cut - L.S.M.F.T indeed. And my apologies...thos changes are "Strike Up the Band", which would explain the title. I am failing...a few years ago this would have been a no-brainer...

Allie Reynolds Ally McBeal Ali Velshi

They got the money, right?

I'm thinking there were three ashram cassettes? If so, they were all blogged back in the day, and portions were included in the official compilation for a a few years ago. I like this stuff quite a bit, actually, and would recommend it to all but the most hesitant.

I find that honest thieves are the easiest people in the world to deal with.

I think, if I'm reading everything right, that she also claimed that the "sexual harassment" (in quotes to distinguish it as a claim, rather than a diminishment of seriousness) didn't begin until after their intimate relations ship had ended. That's a legitimate claim, but not what #MeToo is about (imo/if i understand correctly).

I guess I will be able to buy one from Billy off the bandstand then, eh? I bought a T-Shirt from him like that back in 1980, an LP would last longer and never shrink! LP FTW!!!!! Maybe the logic is that if there's no CDs made that the music will not get transferred over into the digital domain where it can, in theory, live forever. Uh...no. That horse done left the barn and that barn got razed to put in condos.

But, Chuck, I ALREADY love percussion?!?!?!?!?! Still, Roscoe on there twice...like seeing that!

Gross, mysogynistic, but not without some truth...I can get a lot grosser than that, but suffice it to say that there are certain types of people for whom gaining "musical knowledge" includes getting sexual knowledge. I cannot read somebody saying that they fucked a dude for a good while who they didn't really "want" to fuck in order to get "musical knowledge" and not think that the "musical knowledge" they are really seeking isn't just "saxophone lessons", it's lessons about internal psychological/physical rhythms and vibrations. I could tell you stories, real stories...some happy, some sad, some outright tragic, but all true. The age thing is the gross part, and it's the headline. But believe me when I tell you that this sort of thing is NOT totally uncommon, the seeking of "musical knowledge" through sexual experience. Why that is...oh, we could go on, but we won't, because we're dealing with tabloid headline type stuff about a "young white girl" and an older "predatory black man", and that's headline enough for the breakfast paper. But if Paul Harvey was here (and thank god he's not....), there would be "the rest of the story". And there's a lot of it. A LOT of it, and it involves a helluva lot more than just these two headline people. America ain't ready to confront this openly and freely, and may never be.

Sold out? Of CDs? How can that be?

Good luck, then.

Are we to believe that jazz consumers have the same consumption habits as people who buy music as lifestyle accessory? I mean, I'm sure there's an overlap, but how much of one? I'm laughing at how I was forced out of buying LPs into buying CDs, now I'm possibly being forced out of buying CDs and into buying LPs again. Well, no. Now we have internet and digital everything. There will be no more forcing. Sell me something I will buy.

Too bad he's dead, I could have given him ample examples to prove him wrong!

Good to know about this history. My Jamaican music awareness, is, on the best of days, superficial. so much to learn....

Ok, who is Count Ossie? I don't know that name.

I love the narration on The Little Purple Flower...Ellington talking about opiates in a VERY Ellingtionan oblique way....wonder if he was inspired by Pauls's stuggles with addiction?

Those are aggregate statistics, right? Let me see a breakdown by genre, then we can talk. This music is totally niche music now, so these reports of mass consumption habits are just hat - mass consumption, not a granular look at genre consumption.

Yale Concert, right? #5? That's where I have it, anyway.

OMG, yeah, I remember seeing that one now... Kinda disincentivized after this one, which REALLY disappointed, I mean, with that rhythm,...

Hall & Fripps! Fripp & Hall-o! Whaever, it works well enough for me to get 6.99 copy off of Amazone and then enjoy it a few times.

Mosaics sometimes sell out. But when they do, they sell out to a volume that usually more than meets initial sale estimates. It takes a while. And they do it at a per-unit price that is certainly not aggressively affordable, but certainly appropriate for the music/format offered. I have yet to have it explained to me why $20-$40 LPs are a better value than a $20 CD with twice the content, or a $15 CD with the same content. "Nobody" buys CDs any more? That's a lie, especially in niche music like this. What this LP crap does is to extract more income from limited product. Again, raw capitalism, not "love". They are gaming the consumer, who, as is often the case, voluntary stooges. Would anybody refuse to buy this Billy Harper thing if it was NOT issued on LP? Or given the choice, how many would go with the CD option?

I only know the one with the lightening and shit on the cover. What's the other one? Is it better?

Someday we will talk about sex in music. Not sex around music, not the sexual activities of its players, no the sex that is actually in music. Not "eroticism", no, sex.